The Pirate Bay says police didn't find its servers when they raided a data center in a Swedish mountain

The Pirate Bay says it wasn't hit by the raid. Timm Schamberger/Getty Images The Pirate Bay has explained to Torrent Freak what happened following a police raid in December that knocked the site offline for months.

But The Pirate Bay's administrators have told Torrent Freak that police didn't actually find its servers in Nacka Station, but they actually raided EZTV, a different filesharing site.

The Pirate Bay says one of its servers was seized as part of the police action against illegal filesharing sites, but it was only a communications server for administrators, and it wasn't stored at Nacka Station.

This isn't the first time The Pirate Bay has played down the seriousness of the police raid. An administrator said in an interview shortly after the raid that "we couldn't care less." However, The Pirate Bay now says that its two months of downtime came as a direct result of the police raid. It didn't have to take site offline, administrators tell Torrent Freak, but it did so anyway to make sure the police didn't have evidence on the site's owners or users.

Last September the group behind The Pirate Bay revealed the clever combination of servers that was meant to help it avoid a shutdown by police. They use a network of virtual machines to mask traffic, splitting the traffic loads around the world so the site doesn't rely on a single server.